Health News Archive - August 31, 2006

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The risk of miscarriage after
undergoing chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, to detect birth
defects is lower than previously thought and essentially
carries the same risk than the more commonly used
amniocentesis, according to new research.

By Katie Nguyen JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The aromatic smell of sorghum and
beans stirs a group of Sudanese soldiers from their lazy game
of dominoes, bringing former enemies together to eat from the
same tin bowl.

By Fayen Wong KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - A dark-green army truck zips
through the hilly countryside in southern Taiwan before
disappearing behind the high walls of an unmarked military base
-- the largest of Singapore's three army camps in Taiwan.

For decades, Christiania clung to the principles of its hippie founders, who started the settlement as a squat in a deserted barracks in Copenhagen in 1971. It grew into a tourist hotspot, largely thanks to an easy trade in soft drugs.

LONDON (Reuters) - Families will lose the right to block
their relatives' wish to donate their organs under reforms,
which come into force on Friday. Currently families can stop doctors from taking their loved
ones' organs even if they carried a donor card.

In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs, seems to lower the increased risk of cardiovascular disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis, research suggests.